Tuesday, February 10, 2009

3 different Sights at Trail Wood

Trail Wood #18.09 by Earl Plato
Edwin May Teale and his wife Nellie were always walking Trail Wood pathways. This day was no Exception.
“ The feature of our walk in the March sunshine today is creatures doing something different. In the Wild PlumTangle. We see a cottontail rabbit carefully going over the surface of the snow. It is gleaning fragments of cracked corn scattered by the wind. Out in the open downward from the catalpa tree we discover jays, grosbeaks, and smaller birds picking at he snow. We tun aside to investigate several of the dark, slender, cigar-shaped seedpods dangling on the catalpa have split open. The birds ae consuming the watery seeds that speckle the ground. A red squirrel that has found a snug winter home under the roof of our garage provides the third of these instances of creatures engaged in unusual activity. I see where it has torn apart a mud dauber’s nest and added meat to its diet by consuming the wasp pupae within.”
Writer’s note: Be observant. Whar three different things will you see in nature this week?

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